Sweetie Boom By Mysticalpha

Someone on Twitter told me I’m less of a person and more of an emotionless robot for being in the military.

Not only did the stupidity of that statement make me laugh, but I got some amusing images.

BLEEP BOOP

I AM A MILITARY ROBOT

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US

MAGGOT

The dual-30mm cannon of a Sukhoi Su-25 removed from the fuselage and on display.

(Butowski Collection)

And this time a S-Ic  S-II separation from the FREAKING APOLLO 11! The same rocket that put men on the Moon! This time from the external perspective (also known as “staying on the ground, NOT GOING TO THE FREAKING MOON!”).

As before, expect fanboying and trivia below.

You can see the first stage (S-Ic) cutoff, as a sudden decrease in the size of the exhaust plume. At that time, only four outboard engines were firing, the center one was shut down as expected, to prevent pogo oscillations (oscillations + rockets != good_things)

The big explosion was just the stage separation. Using explosives to separate huge stacks of explosives. Surprisingly a good idea.

Even though the S-Ic engines were already shut down, they still produced some leftover exhaust, which you can easily see

The launch of Apollo 7.

Guys Night Out 7

Cadance sure has been quite the addition for our fellow gentlecolts. I'm actually getting kinda fond of this style. I think I'll keep it and build on it. ___________________________________________...

I spy a Horse Wife in the stadium!

Google Photos automatically made this 10/10 panorama for me

It seems like a interesting design interesting but I’m not sure if it’ll ever take off. I’m far from being an expert but the tri-engine design INCLUDING a liquid-fueled rocket engine sounds like a nightmare to maintain, especially since rockets engines aren’t usually considered to be safe enough for commercial transport.

Since turbojets are meant to be extendable (yeah, I’ve looked at the article), I’d like to remind anyone that complexity is usually prone to failures. Same goes for the rear fins (also change position in-fight). In my amateur opinion using turboramjets or internal turbojets would make more sense. Aaand... it wouldn’t probably look as depicted on the second picture.

And that is not including costs. No manned air-breathing airplane has ever reached speeds faster than mach 3.5, and the one that came close (Blackbird) was specially designed to handle these speeds. We have no experience at building near-hypersonic manned aircraft, especially meant for commercial human transport. Then, after each light rocket engines would have to be test-fired (just for safety) and probably replaced with a new one after every... lets be optimistic and say 30 flights.

Okay enough rambling... for now

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